it is the violence of your passions that alarms me - Stendhal

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it is the violence of your passions that alarms me

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Marie-Henri Beyle (January 23, 1783 – March 23, 1842), more widely known as Stendhal, the most famous of his many pen-names, was a 19th century French writer.

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Alternative Names: Henri Beyle Marie Henri Beyle Marie-Henri Beyle
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"Аз живях достатъчно, за да видя, че различието ражда омразата."
"Тежък ще е твоят жизнен път. В тебе аз виждам нещо, което обижда простолюдието. Завистта и Клеветата ще те преследват. Където и да те запрати провидението, другарите ти няма да могат да те гледат без омраза; и ако се преструват, че те обичат, то ще е само, за да те погубят по- сигурно."

I sustained that a great part of Walter Scott's merit was owed to a secretary that drafted the descriptions of landscape in presence of nature. I found him how I find him now, weak in painting passion, in knowledge of the human heart. Posterity will confirm the judgement of contemporaries that places the Baronet Ultra immediately after Shakespeare.

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